Chapter 612: Legendary Living Organ Repository, Meeting Artus Again

[Activating ‘Celestial Phenomenon — The Ancient Comet,’ targeting player ‘Artus’s Underground Cave’]

[Celestial Phenomenon — The Ancient Comet] vanished from the Book of Fate.

In Yu Yuan’s vision, a meteor phantom visible only to himself streaked down from the sky and landed on Artus in the blink of an eye.

Faint dark red ripples emanated from Artus’s body.

That was the aura of ill fortune.

Yu Yuan took a deep look at Artus, then without any lingering reluctance, turned around and rushed toward the core structures of this relic—‘Place of Divine Rest’ and ‘Legendary Living Organ Repository.’

Now Artus also possessed three invitation letters.

He had to get ahead of Artus and secure the items that could boost his strength.

Originally, this civilization relic was already quite dim. Now that Artus had used death aura to shroud the sky, the environment was like water to a fish for Yu Yuan.

He moved swiftly through the shadows.

In the distance, the battle had already erupted once more.

The [Legendary Living Organ Repository] was located in the area between [Place of Divine Rest] and [Cross-Dimensional Gene Fusion Laboratory].

Its shape resembled a massive beehive, forming a hemisphere.

It emitted a soft purple glow.

The entrance was a crystal-like beehive platform.

When Yu Yuan arrived at the crystal platform, an eye appeared on the beehive and began scanning him.

[This area is a restricted zone. Detected that player ID ‘Yu Yuan Shelter’ possesses admin privileges. Free entry granted.]

Similar to the situation with the [Cross-Dimensional Gene Fusion Laboratory], Yu Yuan easily entered with his admin privileges.

As the crystal platform descended downward, Yu Yuan saw a stunning sight.

Through the crystal walls, hundreds of independent platforms were arranged in a matrix. Each platform was an individual containment unit, each containing a display stand.

Although nearly four-fifths of the platforms were empty, the remaining one-fifth held various biological organs on their display stands. These organs came in all shapes and sizes, each emitting a faint shimmer.

At the very center of the matrix was a large platform with five distinctive display stands.

Four of those stands were also empty, while the last one was shrouded in black mist.

Yu Yuan approached the nearest organ to inspect it. It was a pair of butterfly wings. The crystal transformed into a screen displaying the organ’s information.

[Wings of the Green Source Dream Butterfly]

Quality: Legendary

Description: This is the wing of a legendary creature from the Dream Illusion Civilization—the Green Source Dream Butterfly. It possesses the ability to create and control dreams.

“Legendary-tier!” Yu Yuan hadn’t expected to encounter a legendary-tier sample organ right from the start.

He tried to open this platform, and a dialog box appeared before him.

[Open containment unit S-422?]

— [Yes]

As Yu Yuan completed the selection, a ‘click’ sounded, and the crystal window opened.

He watched as the display stand, along with the butterfly wings on top, shrank down to the size of a fist.

Yu Yuan picked it up and realized that the display stand itself was also an epic-grade item with spatial properties.

“Jackpot!”

Putting away the wings, Yu Yuan began looting in earnest.

The heart of a certain red dragon (Legendary-tier)—take it!

The eye of a serpent god from a certain small world (Legendary-tier)—take it!

The throat bone of an ancient whale from a certain ocean civilization world (Legendary-tier)—take it!

...

As far as the eye could see, they were all organs from legendary creatures.

While collecting, Yu Yuan inwardly marveled at Mortarian’s extravagance.

At the same time, he silently cursed the guy for being ruthless. How many worlds must he have traveled to encounter so many legendary creatures?

For others, encountering even one was incredibly difficult. Here, Mortarian had gutted them all for their organs.

By now, Yu Yuan had seen enough of the world to know that so-called legendary creatures were essentially unique beings.

Especially these legendary creatures—most of them were the only ones of their kind.

Thinking about it this way, Mortarian must have exterminated countless biological races.

But Yu Yuan only thought about this in passing. He wouldn’t let any moral baggage prevent him from taking these items.

It wasn’t him who killed them anyway—he wouldn’t have any psychological burden in taking them.

Soon, all the organs were collected, totaling 33 pieces.

In other words, there should have originally been over a hundred legendary-tier organ specimens here.

But...

There was still nothing here that satisfied Yu Yuan’s needs for advancing to Silver-tier.

His gaze shifted to the single remaining item on the central platform.

“Hopefully, this will be a surprise!”

Yu Yuan walked toward the passage.

But just as he was about to step onto the passage leading to the central platform.

A needle-like sensation shot through his entire body.

His foot, raised halfway, immediately stopped, then slowly retreated.

Only when the prickling sensation on his body disappeared did he let out a long sigh of relief.

“This path won’t work!”

— [Warning! Step back immediately! You do not have access permission]

A warning message popped up on the virtual light screen.

“No luck, huh!”

Yu Yuan took one last deep look at the black mist-shrouded display stand on the central platform.

Then he turned and left.

Since the system said his permissions were insufficient, he would just have to obtain enough permissions.

Yu Yuan left the [Legendary Living Organ Repository] and headed straight for his final destination—the Place of Divine Rest.

But after his delay at the [Legendary Living Organ Repository], Artus’s battle with Shadow Wolf had already ended.

Even the black mist formed by death aura in the sky had dissipated.

Yu Yuan became unusually cautious in his movements.

“Damn it, why can’t I open the Shadow Dimension here!”

Yu Yuan felt somewhat frustrated in his heart.

“Zhi Zhi, still can’t sense the existence of the Shadow Dimension?”

“Master, still nothing. Perhaps there are special rules here.”

Zhi Zhi’s words made Yu Yuan a bit irritable.

But fortunately, he moved quickly, and there was enough shadow here.

Soon, Yu Yuan reached a position close to the ‘Place of Divine Rest.’

In other words, the tallest tower of the entire civilization relic.

But just then, Zhi Zhi’s voice rang out in his mind again.

“No, Master, there’s someone in the shadows ahead.”

The moment these words came out, Yu Yuan immediately halted his movements.

He activated [Concealment] at full power, while also keeping [Shadow Stride] ready for immediate activation.

Following Zhi Zhi’s guidance, he carefully sensed the shadow situation ahead.

Sure enough.

Relying on his own mastery of shadows.

He also detected a faint, unusual aura.

He focused his gaze, and a blurry figure gradually came into focus.

“It’s him!”

It was that werewolf who also understood how to manipulate shadows.

“Zhi Zhi, will he find us here?”

“No, Master. His shadow manipulation ability is very rudimentary. It doesn’t seem to be his own skill—more like the effect granted by some piece of equipment. No need to worry!”

Hearing Zhi Zhi’s words, the image of that black cloak the Shadow Wolf was wearing immediately came to Yu Yuan’s mind.

That must be the equipment in question.

But why was he hiding here?

Then, the next moment, Yu Yuan saw a figure—it was Artus.

And where he was standing now was right at the entrance of the [Place of Divine Rest].